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Regrettably there have been a couple of recent cases that do indeed raise the spectre that the judge or jury must have been nobbled, but even so the corruptibility of the judicial system is manifestly far less than the parliamentary and civil service system (particularly once Jack Straw finishes exempting the civil service from transparency).

I must contradict anon of 04.44. The present government is doing its best financially to cripple the Labour party, is planning a huge gerrymander with constituency boundaries, and has already started filleting the voting rolls to remove the young and transient (who are far more likely to vote Labour). In the real world the change of getting rid of the con-servatives via the ballot box is slim and getting less, not for proper (policy related) political reasons but because of antidemocratic manoeuvring.

One general has already hinted at a coup to remove a Labour government (if ever) led by Corbyn.

The press and media, in the hands of a few very rich barons, provide a relentless bombardment of highly right-wing propaganda, and outright lies in government (Hammond, Hunt, to name but two) go unremedied.

The progression is obvious. They came for the sick. They came for the poor. They came for the workers. They came for the foreigners. They came for the unions. They came for the lawyers. Now they are coming for the judges.